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Neural Darwinism: The Evolution of Truth

June 3, 2004

Can evolutionary theory build a bottom-up explanation of higher cognitive functions? David Papineau (King’s College) doubts it. In his review of The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux (transl. Malcolm DeBevoise, Belknap Press: 2004), published in the June 3 issue of Nature,1 he gives the author high marks, but concedes that […]

Bible and Theology

Movie Jesus: Fact or Fiction?

June 2, 2004

At a large rally at Biola University June 1, the Jesus Film Project, in collaboration with the university, announced a new DVD entitled Jesus: Fact or Fiction?. Each household at the rally received a free copy. Half of the DVD contains the full length Jesus film, a project that has been translated into more languages […]

Bible and Theology

Dead Sea Drying Up

June 2, 2004

The Dead Sea water level is dropping 3.3 feet per year and may be gone in 50 years, reports World Net Daily. Israel and Jordan are working on ways to save the world’s lowest-elevation lake, a landmark of Biblical fame. California has a dry lake, Owens Lake, that became a huge source of toxic pollution […]

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North Star Is Rapidly Changing

June 2, 2004

The North Star (Polaris) has brightened by 150% since Ptolemy observed it 2000 years ago, says the American Astronomical Society (see report on Science Now). If the differences from those in ancient times are real, “these changes are 100 times larger than predicted by current theories of stellar evolution.” Polaris is also a pulsating Cepheid […]

Early Man

Modern Cavemen Found

June 1, 2004

National Geographic News has a remarkable true story about some families that lived underground in the darkness and dampness of a cave for nearly two years in recent times. And now, the rest of the story: they were Jews hiding out from the Nazis. This incredible story of survival in the midst of danger points […]

Education

Academic Freedom Applied Unequally

June 1, 2004

In the June ICR Impact article, Dr. Jerry Bergman tells a tale of two professors. One, a philosophy professor, has full academic freedom to dismantle the religious faith of his students (one of his converts was Michael Shermer, now editor of Skeptic Magazine). The other, a Christian anatomy professor, was forbidden by the courts to […]

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Darwinist Chides Recklessness of Evolutionists

May 31, 2004

The tendency of some evolutionists to engage in just-so storytelling was intolerable to George C. Williams, an influential Darwinian. Throughout his life he called them to accountability. Now elderly, he was recently honored by fellow evolutionists at State University of New York, Stony Brook. Carl Zimmer described the event in the May 28 issue of […]

Astronomy

Young Planet Around Young Star Claimed

May 28, 2004

A star estimated to be one million years old already has a planet in orbit around it, the Spitzer Space Telescope (Hubble’s counterpart for infrared astronomy) has found. Astrobiology Magazine says this challenges old theories. Alan Boss (Carnegie Institute) thinks this supports his disk-instability model for planetary formation, in which gas giants can form quickly, […]

Cosmology

Cosmos Ages a Billion Years in One Day

May 28, 2004

Physicists have found that a portion of the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen reaction thought to participate in fusion reactions inside stars runs two times slower than previously thought. The measurements were made in the Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics (LUNA), a lab nearly a mile underground in Italy that offers more protection from cosmic rays. The ripple effect […]

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DNA: The Mystery of the Ultraconserved Elements

May 27, 2004

As we proceed into the age of genomics, the DNA codes of more and more animals are coming into focus. The genomes of humans, chimpanzees, mice, chickens, dogs, rats and pufferfish have been sequenced so far, and more are planned. Evolutionists expected the ancestry of all living things to be traceable in the genetic code […]

Health

Exercise Your Nerves

May 27, 2004

A team of neurologists from UCLA and duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware found that voluntary exercise improves regeneration of neurons, both for those who work out, and for those recuperating after injury. The abstract in PNAS1 states: Recent advances in understanding the role of neurotrophins on activity-dependent plasticity have provided insight into how behavior […]

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Human and Chimp DNA Compared

May 26, 2004

Dumb Ideas

Can a Cell Improve by Lowering Its Standards?

May 26, 2004

The title of a paper in PNAS is intriguing: “Artificially ambiguous genetic code confers growth yield advantage.” An international team claims to have created a beneficial mutation. They removed the editing ability of a protein involved in translating the genetic code, and got it to survive in a nutrient-starved environment. They suggest that the resulting […]

Amazing Facts

Hippos Sweat Their Own Sunscreen

May 25, 2004

You know that reddish fluid on hippo skin that turns brown? It’s not just funny colored sweat. Japanese scientists reported in Nature1 that it acts as a sunscreen and an antibiotic. See also the BBC News report on this finding. 1Saikawa et al., “Pigment chemistry: The red sweat of the hippopotamus,” Nature 429, 363 (27 […]

Bible and Theology

Humans and Chimps Compared

May 25, 2004

In case you had an identity crisis last time at the zoo, Current Biology can provide psychoanalysis. The May 25 issue posted two articles side by side: one, simply entitled “Humans,”1 and the other, “Chimps.”2 Various comparisons are contrasts are drawn, including a few surprising facts, such as this statement: “Based on relative amounts of […]

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